This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com
15 Years of Coverage (2010-2025)
Harley Quinn
·
1 on Harley Quinn #54 - ReviewsI have to give credit where credit is due. I have not been quiet about my dissatisfaction with this title. It has been somewhat of a repetitive slog, somehow simultaneously relying on gimmicky narrative overconceptualization and its main character’s basic, most recognizable shticks. It’s somehow been both too same-y and unnecessarily innovative. So when the…
After a playful, adventurous break for another installment of Gotham City Sirens, your favorite psycho psychiatrist is back to continue smashing the achingly modern twin threats of Unrequited Love and Gentrification. While baking pies for the upcoming Throatcutter hill neighborhood block party, asks her neighbors (as well as her possible-hallucination floating external brain) for advice…
Our sirens (Cat Woman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn) have infiltrated their way into a nightclub that finally opened up to the public after being suspiciously exclusive for so long. Once our crew realizes that the prize d possession they’re looking for is a child trapped in a cage they realize something very fishy is going…
Local politics are in the news this week here in good old NYC. The sun is blazing, the humidity is oppressing, but nothing can stop motivated New Yorkers from getting out there and doing their boring civic duty. Funny that local political procedure is at the center of this month’s Harley Quinn. Let’s just hope…
DC Pride 2025 has a very ambitious multi universe storyline that encompasses a looooot of different writers, artists and characters. There’s also a separate story attached at the end where a trans person shares her personal story throughout her life at DC and within a country that inhabits increasingly intense hatred towards people like her.…
This, dear reader, is my 14th issue since beginning to cover Harley Quinn here on Batman News. 15 if you count the 2024 annual. There’s a tradition in my home when you reach 14 or possibly 15 of anything. That tradition is you just do what you regularly do and don’t really mention the 14/15…
I don’t flatter myself by thinking that the authors of the titles I cover actually read my reviews consistently. I especially don’t flatter myself by thinking that if they did, they would take any of my constructive criticism to heart and adjust their stories based on my influence. But when I read the…
Spring is in the air here in the good old Northeast. It’s a time in which even the most drab, gray, desaturated urban surfaces can feel renewed— or at least unthawed. I also think it’s a perfect time for our monthly check in with Gotham’s Favorite Anti-Hero Psycho-Clown. After an Amadeus-Arkham-journal-style flashback from evil…
Every year, my New Year’s Resolution is to travel more. Then I remember that traveling on a student budget is impossible in this economy. So when I escape into a comforting comic book and see an undeniably hard-working character like Harley Quinn take a personal day and hide away in nature for a rest…
It’s freezing here in New York City. Unseasonably low temperatures, even for the end of January. Harsh winters can be a time for cozy, unchallenging reads. Luckily, with this 47th issue of the ongoing adventures of Harley Quinn, I can tick one of those boxes. We’re back to the square run of this…
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, loyal readers of Harley Quinn: it’s official. We have a gimmick on our hands. And it has arrived at a most disappointing time in the lifespan of any new run, when the new creative team is typically expected to establish a narrative or stylistic foothold for their title.…
DC Comics recently revealed their solicitations for issues coming out in March, and for the most part it's about what you'd expect. There are a lot of continuations of ongoing series and a good number of first issues that had already been revealed as part of their All In initiative. However, there was one surprise…
If there was one thing I would have wanted from the previous run on Harley Quinn, it was a greater sense of narrative consistency. A story that’s bouncing all over the place can, of course, be more easily forgiven when its protagonist is someone who is often, quite literally, bouncing all over the place.…
A New Scene for Ms. Harleen When a new creative team hops onto an ongoing title, they’ve really got two options: do they continue with the narrative momentum of the old guard, hoping to deliver a seamless reader transition, or do they wipe the slate clean and announce their presence? It’s a new…
This month, officially Tini Howard says goodbye to Gotham City by wrapping up her run on its most colorful character. This last entrance into this chapter of Harley Quinn’s adventures is an extended exercise in duality, one which meticulously wraps up the run’s major plot points while revisiting its major themes of redemption through emotional…
Let’s say you’re writing a four-part ensemble story. You’ve laid out maybe a dozen different elements in the forms of plot threads, character ideas, and avenues for social or political commentary. Your story is moving along at an entertainingly fast clip for the first three parts, and now your remaining challenge is to bring it…
Do you watch BreadTube-style video essays? I sure watch a hell of BreadTube-style videos essays, especially for someone who essentially has no idea what that means. I was simply told recently that I watch and enjoy a lot of BreadTube style video essays. One of the things you come to learn if you watch…
Last weak, faithful readers, we were witness to a good deal of gaming groundwork. This week, we really see things moving. Gotham City Sirens #2 is a real winner of a middle issue. Issue #1’s inciting reveal was that Punchline was behind the mysterious cyber-buffalo stampedes, and that the cartoonish futuristic Western violence running…
I’ve recently been spending a good deal of time with somebody who likes to describe things as “camp”. As in, a lot of things. At first, I had no idea what exactly he meant when he used the word. After my strategy of waiting around to see if any sort of pattern revealed itself failed,…
Well, that was predictable, now wasn’t it, Officer Pulaski? Last month, a semi-rogue GCDP Detective tried to cut a deal with one Harley Quinn, hoping she’d trade information on the Bat-Family in exchange for punitive leniency for those inevitable moments when she traipses back over to the wrong side of the law. But Officer…
Browse By Topic
Browse By Year
Browse By Author
This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com